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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Cannonball Adderley
Jazz Musician
15-Sep-1928 8-Aug-1975 Alto sax blower
Alan Ameche
Football
1-Mar-1933 8-Aug-1988 Winner, 1954 Heisman Trophy
Barbara Bel Geddes
Actor
31-Oct-1922 8-Aug-2005 Miss Ellie on Dallas
Louise Brooks
Actor
14-Nov-1906 8-Aug-1985 Pandora's Box
George Canning
Politician
11-Apr-1770 8-Aug-1827 Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain
Richard Deacon
Actor
14-May-1921 8-Aug-1984 The Dick Van Dyke Show
Silvester Gardiner
Doctor
29-Jun-1708 8-Aug-1786 Colonial American pharmacist
James Irwin
Astronaut
17-Mar-1930 8-Aug-1991 8th to walk on the Moon
Howell Edmunds Jackson
Judge
8-Apr-1832 8-Aug-1895 US Supreme Court Justice, 1893-95
Shirley Jackson
Novelist
14-Dec-1916 8-Aug-1965 The Lottery
Lucas van Leyden
Engraver
1489 8-Aug-1533 Dutch Renaissance engraver, painter
Adolf Loos
Architect
10-Dec-1870 8-Aug-1933 Ornament and Crime
Gene Mauch
Baseball
18-Nov-1925 8-Aug-2005 MLB Manager
Thomas J. McIntyre
Politician
20-Feb-1915 8-Aug-1992 US Senator from New Hampshire, 1962-79
Vilhelm Moberg
Novelist
20-Aug-1898 8-Aug-1973 The Emigrants
Orville Moody
Golf
9-Dec-1933 8-Aug-2008 Winner, 1969 US Open
Russ Morgan
Musician
29-Apr-1904 8-Aug-1969 Bandleader, arranger and trombonist
Nevill F. Mott
Physicist
30-Sep-1905 8-Aug-1996 Properties of semiconductors
Alan Napier
Actor
7-Jan-1903 8-Aug-1988 Alfred on Batman
Patricia Neal
Actor
20-Jan-1926 8-Aug-2010 The Day the Earth Stood Still
Paul Porcasi
Actor
1879 8-Aug-1946 Character actor, Broadway and film
Maureen Reagan
Relative
4-Jan-1941 8-Aug-2001 Daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman
Paul Rudolph
Architect
23-Oct-1918 8-Aug-1997 Brutalist architect
Melville Shavelson
Film Director
1-Apr-1917 8-Aug-2007 Yours, Mine and Ours
Edna Skinner
Actor
23-May-1921 8-Aug-2003 Kay Addison on Mister Ed
Chaim Soutine
Painter
1894 8-Aug-1944 Expressionist painter, Carcass of Beef
Adolph Sutro
Politician
29-Apr-1830 8-Aug-1898 San Francisco mayor, 1895-97
Sharon Tate
Actor
24-Jan-1943 8-Aug-1969 Polanski's wife murdered by Manson family
Thomas à Kempis
Religion
1380 8-Aug-1471 Imitation of Christ
Baldur von Schirach
Government
9-Mar-1907 8-Aug-1974 Hitler-Jugend, Gauleiter of Vienna
Erwin von Witzleben
Military
4-Dec-1881 8-Aug-1944 German general, tried to overthrow Hitler
Eric Walrond
Author
18-Dec-1898 8-Aug-1966 Tropic Death
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
Military
8-Jan-1830 8-Aug-1882 Union Army General
Fay Wray
Actor
15-Sep-1907 8-Aug-2004 King Kong
Torakusu Yamaha
Business
20-Apr-1851 8-Aug-1916 Founder of Yamaha Corporation




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